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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Conditions in the lower courts are particularly scandalous. Lawyers, witnesses and influence peddlers mill through dank, malodorous corridors as prisoners accused of minor misdeeds are brought before a judge and sentenced by the dozen. President Johnson's commission suggests that misdemeanors should be handled in the felony courts, with their better judges and higher standards. The commission would also abolish the justice of the peace, rural counterpart of the lower court. Today the J.P. still operates in 35 states, and in most of these his pay comes from the fees and fines extracted from parties brought before...
Bonnet had two main ideas for his team: exercise and the egg. Until then, the prevailing form featured a skis-together, head-up posture. Bonnet reasoned that I'oeuf, a little used, head-down, feet-apart crouch, would give less aerodynamic drag and a lower center of gravity, thus making a skier faster and less likely to fall. The trouble was that it required fantastic strength to hold the egg for any length of time. Le coach, therefore, put les skiers through an exhaustive and exhausting daily ritual of deep knee bends with 60-lb. sacks of sand...
Salting the Wound. Whatever the President's decision, it is not difficult to understand his reluctance to keep Martin around. In 1965 and election year 1966, the Johnson Administration shied away from the higher taxes or lower expenditures that seemed necessary to arrest inflation. But if the Administration was reluctant, Martin was not. He not only read the danger signals but persuaded the Federal Reserve-over Johnson's personal and public protests-to raise the cost and cut the supply of money. Only last month he salted that wound by stating that "markets don't wait...
...Michael Redgrave, 58, is a tragedian who ranks only a little lower in English estimation than Sir John Gielgud and Sir Laurence Olivier. Lady Redgrave, who plays as Rachel Kempson, is accounted a superb supporting actress. And over the last year a new generation of Redgraves, who might well be known as "Michael's bloody marvels," has spangled the marquees with a retina-rocking glitter of new talent. Corin, 27, played his first big part (Sir Thomas More's son-in-law) in a big picture (A Man for All Seasons) and charmed the critics with a witty portrait...
...semaphorically knock-kneed. Lynn, continues Ustinov, "gives the impression of knocking things down by mistake because she doesn't know her tail is wagging." She has a kewpie-doll face countersunk in a strawberry-blonde mane; she wears what looks like fluorescent face powder; and she sometimes paints her lower lashes, Twiggy-style, so far below the natural eyeline that people wonder if they need a hairnet. But the eyes look out between the lashes with a wonderful sparkling sanity, and the high excited voice goes burbling on like a Bayswater faucet?it just can't keep anything...